# Palmer 1958: Luvian and Linear A > Leonard R. Palmer, 1958. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Origin of the Anatolian reading. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQHJZ227QPH/luvian-and-linear-a Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Linear A](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/linear-a)Palmer 1958 **0** # Luvian and Linear A Leonard R. Palmer, 1958. _Transactions of the Philological Society_. The first sustained proposal that Linear A writes Luwian, an Anatolian language, based on word matches and inflectional endings. **Linear A** Articledoi: **[10.1111/j.1467-968x.1958.tb01273.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968x.1958.tb01273.x)** Checked against the original0 ## What it's used for here Origin of the Anatolian reading. ## Cited by on this site 3 records [Linear A records an Anatolian language of the Luwian or Lycian branch.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/linear-a/answers/ANS0CQHK5D6238Z/linear-a-records-an-anatolian-language-of-the-luwian-or) Answer ANS [Palmer's 1958 word matches did not generalise to the corpus and were not adopted.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/linear-a/evidence/EVD0CQHK5WT4QD1/palmers-1958-word-matches-did-not-generalise-to-the-corpus) Evidence EVD [Linear A](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/linear-a) The mystery article MYS ## Cite it ``` Palmer, L. R. (1958). Luvian and Linear A. Transactions of the Philological Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968x.1958.tb01273.x ``` [Find it at keibi.uni-tuebingen.de](https://keibi.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00117363) Key **SRC** 0CQHJZ227QPH Kind Journal article Rights The publisher's Kept 28 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published article Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CQHJZ227QPH/luvian-and-linear-a/csl.json)